Sentences with phrase «other ant species»

What's more, the eggs they carry might serve as food for other ants — particularly since other ant species are known to lay such unfertilised «trophic» eggs.

«This research finding experimentally verified the long - held assumption that Argentine ants use gaster - produced compounds during aggressive interactions with other ant species.

Bristling from some of the tunnels are hairlike projections, perfectly captured — the tunnels of another ant species, the tiny, sneaky thief ant Monomorium viridum, which survives by raiding the broods of other ant species.

Arolia have been seen in other ant species, Wojtusiak says; they enable ants to walk on smooth tropical leaves.

Not exact matches

It's great for carpenter ants but can also kill a wide range of winged wood - infesting insects as well as about 75 other species.

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

They will tear other species to shreds, but when ants from a colony in Argentina meet their brethren in Japan, the long - lost cousins get along swimmingly.

But while some will attack any threat that comes in their path — people included — much of their cruelest behavior is reserved for other species of ants.

However, other species of Pheidole ants, those without supersoldiers, also live alongside army ants.

A University of Arizona research team first studied this ant species because of its ability to farm not just fungi, like leafcutter ants do, but other crops as well.

Other research has suggested that Argentine ants outcompete native ant species for food, and head - to - head fighting crops up, too.

Now, new evidence suggests that today's slave snatchers started out as temporary parasites — ants that laid their eggs in the nests of other species and then used those workers as part - time caregivers for their own offspring.

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

Scientists have long wondered why in some ant species the pupae spin silk cocoons around their bodies, whereas in others the pupae are «naked.»

Other host species are generalists and give homes to members of a variety of ant genera.

Two species of spiders that ordinarily hunt other spiders, and did so successfully in the lab, killed less than one - fifth of the ant mimics.

Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.

(D) This yet - to - be named species of Pachycondyla is not just another face in the crowd; unlike most ants, some Pachycondyla species are capable of recognizing each other as individuals.

Lycaenid butterflies and ants are representative examples of mutualism, in which different species benefit from the activities of the other.

Miller said the researchers also plan to assemble a functional trait database for the ant communities to test whether the Harvey floodwaters favored some types of ant species — such as those with larger bodies or more - protected nests — over others.

Without its unique gut microbiome, which helps in the breakdown of inaccessible nutrients, the ants would have to compete with other species for more readily available food sources.

The rewards are so attractive that, in a drama reminiscent of a medieval fantasy TV show, four native ant species battle each other to inhabit the trees.

They may even profit: It seems that the extirpation of the three species of Crematogaster opens up other trees that T. penzigi can sneak into; Palmer and colleagues found a much higher density of T. penzigi where the bigheaded ants had invaded, they report in an article posted online in Ecology.

Other species of Zasphinctus from outside Africa are known to be predators of other ants, and the mouthparts, musculature, and skin - thickness data from the OIST researchers» study all provide evidence that the African Zasphinctus ants are top predators as Other species of Zasphinctus from outside Africa are known to be predators of other ants, and the mouthparts, musculature, and skin - thickness data from the OIST researchers» study all provide evidence that the African Zasphinctus ants are top predators as other ants, and the mouthparts, musculature, and skin - thickness data from the OIST researchers» study all provide evidence that the African Zasphinctus ants are top predators as well.

Whereas undisturbed environments might typically house upward of 10 ant species, areas that include the Argentine variety accommodate no other species.

Certain ants attack and enslave other species, and integrate their offspring into their own colonies in order to survive.

Researchers have mapped supergenes in butterflies, sparrows, ants and a few other species in recent years, but Jiggins expects that the phenomenon is relatively uncommon.

But other hitchhiking species exploit ant colonies for protection from predators, to find a place to sleep, and so they can get food easily without having to look too hard themselves.

Parker agrees, adding that the strategic use of ants by other species is an underexplored area of biology: «This is evolution at its most extreme: the more we look, the more these creatures force us to modify our ideas of how organisms make a living.»

Other species were also identified, like earthworms, ants, termites, centipedes, beetles, grasshoppers, cockroaches and woodlice, which may also be called «ecosystem engineers» (specifically earthworms, termites and some ants) because their activities modify the soil, enriching its productivity.

Many other species independently evolved stunning strategies; for example the caterpillars of most Lycaenidae butterflies life obligatory in ant colonies [39], many beetles are exclusively known from the safety of ant nests [40] and several snakes lay their eggs only in the fungus - chambers of aggressive leaf - cutting ant nests [41].

«We've paid little attention to what besides direct nutrition is being transmitted» in ants or other species, adds Diana Wheeler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who was not involved with the work.

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

There are very few other animals running around during the day at the open edges of these waterbodies — just ants and cane toads — and when we increased ant numbers by baiting, this didn't increase the numbers of native species killed by ants.

We compared singly mated (monandrous) and multiply mated (polyandrous) sister groups of ants and bees and show that seminal fluid of polyandrous species has a more positive effect on the survival of a male's own sperm than on other males» sperm.

With an opening that has Herzog immodestly laying out his mission statement as wishing to discover, in a roundabout way, why it is that men are obsessed with riding their metaphorical steeds into the wild unknowns, he illustrates the conundrum with a sideswipe at mankind, equating us with ants that hold other insect species as «slaves» and wondering why chimps, despite their intellectual sophistication, decline to domesticate goats to ride them on their own existential pursuits.

The naked mole rat is also one of only two mammal species that are «eusocial» — meaning they live in a colony like ants, termites or bees (the other species being the Damaraland mole rat).

Notable among the wildlife are the 7,000 insect species (for example, wood ants, which build nests that are around three feet tall), eagles, bears, wolves, wolverines and many others.

The new management technique is based on a discovery made in 2009 that the cane toad was more vulnerable to Australia's native meat ants than other species of frogs and toads.

Protozoan species of the genus Cryptosporidium, such as Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum, can cause diarrhea in human hosts who have ingested as few as 10 microscopic oocysts (egglike structures that are made of chitin, the same protein that forms the exoskeletons of ants and other insects) contained in feces or contaminated water.